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Re: My truck
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 20:51:31 GMT
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jsproat@geocities.SPAMCAKEcom
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Todd Lehman wrote:
An extra measure of checking might be to echo back the entire formatted
article (just prior to injection) on a web page to the user for
confirmation.  OTOH someone would probably need a pretty keen eye to detect
wraps of lines 81-83 characters wide, and such a feature might give a false
sense of security.

I like how this is handled in Deja News -- the user is presented with a
choice to "send without preview" or "preview message".  At the message
preview page is another set of choices -- "send" and "return to
editing".

As for the line wraps, it's usually pretty easy to judge by eye if a
long DAT line has been wrapped.

Cheers,
- Sproat



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